Shelf Archive
A collection of past reads and listens that have shaped my thinking — books and podcasts I’ve moved on from but still recommend.
Books
- The Generous Leader — Joe Davis — 7 Ways to Give of Yourself for Everyone’s Gain
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- AI, Engineering Assistance
- AI, Engineering Assistance - Code Generation
- AI, Engineering Assistance - Code Modification
- AI, Engineering Assistance - Explanation
- Algos, Animation - Natural Motion, Inertial Bounce
- Algos, Efficiency
- Algos, UCT, Upper Confidence Bound for Trees
- Awesome Engineering
- Awesome Engineering, Management
- Bamboo Growth, a Poem
- Big Bytes, Big Data, Intensive IO Part I - Volume
- Big Bytes, Big Data, Intensive IO Part II - Velocity
- Bytes, AI, Claude Code, Adding LSPs
- Bytes, AI, Claude Code, Skills
- Bytes, AI, LLM, Large language models on the command line
- Bytes, AI, MCP Servers
- Bytes, AI, Ollama, Large language models on the command line
- Bytes, Excel, Python Scripts
- Bytes, Experimentation
- Bytes, Java, Generating FFM API Bindings with jextract
- Bytes, Linux, Checking for Direct IO Support
- Bytes, Linux, Creating files of any size
- Bytes, Quartz, Adding Bluesky Comments
- Bytes, Rust, REPL
- Coaching Models
- Hello, Engineer - The Art of Continuous Learning
- Hello, Engineer - The Art of Continuous Learning - Playing the Game
- Hello, Engineer - Why Keep an Engineering Journal
- Hello, Engineer(ing) Managers - From Good to Great!
- Hello, Engineering Managers - Coaching Your Team to Excellence
- Hello, Engineering Managers - Coaching Your Team to Excellence - The Player Coach
- Hello, Future - Coding is Dead. Long Live Engineering!
- Hello, Gleam!
- Hello, Nostalgia - (Re)discover the Joy of Programming on the Steam Deck (Part 2)
- Hello, Nostalgia - (Re)discover the Joy of Programming on the Steam Deck.
- Musings, "It Works On My Machine"
- Musings, a Week in the Life of an Engineering Lead
- Musings, Be So Good They Can't Ignore You
- Musings, Down The Rabbit Hole
- Musings, Ferric Oxide
- Musings, I think I need more coffee!
- Musings, Learning Out Loud
- Musings, Moment of Clarity
- Musings, Stop blindly running internet curl installation scripts!
- Musings, The Authenticated Transfer Protocol is the Future of Decentralized Social Media
- Over-Bytes, Over-Engineering Tic-Tac-Toe - Deep Dive
- Over-Engineering Tic-Tac-Toe - Service Stop with Quarkus and Remix
- Over-Engineering Tic-Tac-Toe — An Algorithmic Interlude
- Road to JDK 25 - Over-Engineering Tic-Tac-Toe!
- Road to JDK 25, JDK 21
- Road to JDK 25, JDK 22
- Road to JDK 25, JDK 23
- Road to JDK 25, JDK 24
- Road to JDK 25, JDK 25
- Shelf Archive
- Sympathetic Engineering, 7 Sympathies of Modern Software Engineers